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- Title
Development and Validation of a Personality Type Inventory Based on Enneagram.
- Authors
Tastan, Kenan
- Abstract
Objective: The Enneagram of Personality is an ancient model of human personality, principally understood and taught as a typology of nine interconnected personality types. The aim of this study was to develop a Turkish inventory based on the Enneagram principles. Methods: The authors developed an instrument based on expert opinion and the Delphic method. The final questionnaire consisting of 44 questions was applied to a sample of 156 Turkish-speaking participants using a Likert scale ranging from 0 to 6. Expert validation, factor analysis, and internal consistency were applied. The categorization done by the inventory was validated against the personality type classification made by an expert. Data analysis was done with the SPSS version 20. Results: Of the participants, 89 were females (57.4%) and 66 were males (42.6%). Mean age of the participants was 30.52±10.0 years. Most of the participants were university graduates/students (n=113; 72.4%). Cronbach alpha value for the total items was 0.839 with a split half value of 0.817 for part 1 and 0.757 for part 2. Guttman Split-Half Coefficient was calculated as 0.520. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the nine components explained more than 60% of the total variance. In the confirmatory factor analysis, all items, except item 22, had factor loadings ranging from 0.411 to 0.829. Mean sensitivity and specificity of the instrument for detecting different personality types were high (82.8% and 97.8% respectively). While specificity was above 94% for all domains, sensitivity for type 4 personality was 66.7%. Conclusion: We have concluded that the Taştan Personality Type Inventory is a useful tool in identifying personality types according to the Enneagram principles in Turkish citizens.
- Subjects
TURKEY; COLLEGE graduates; COLLEGE students; STATISTICAL correlation; DELPHI method; EXPERIMENTAL design; FACTOR analysis; RESEARCH methodology; PERSONALITY tests; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH evaluation; SCALE analysis (Psychology); WITNESSES; GUTTMAN scale; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; DATA analysis software
- Publication
Konuralp Medical Journal / Konuralp Tip Dergisi, 2019, Vol 11, Issue 1, p112
- ISSN
1309-3878
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18521/ktd.462049